Manu Daula Award

MANU DAULA (Frigate Bird) AWARD:

The Manu Daula Award is voted on by the PAA membership and given to an individual for outstanding achievement and dedication in the arts of the Pacific.

Past recipients:

1984: Philip Dark and Sidney Moko Mead
1989: Renée Heyum and Margaret Tuckson
1993: Soroi Eoe
2001: Christian Kaufmann and Douglas Newton
2003: Jehanne Teilhet Fisk (posthumously) and Adrienne Kaeppler
2005: Roger Neich
2007: Steven Hooper
2010: Karen Stevenson

The bronze medallion was designed by Paul and Betty Beadle. Paul was a professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University.

© 2008–2012 Pacific Arts Association

Header photos (left to right): Performance by Te Pua O Feani, July 21, 2005; Children's Story (Water Dreaming of Two Children), Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, acrylic on composition board, 1972; IL IAMB NAI? POMBRAL MOLGA KUNDUL AL? WHO IS THIS PERSON? BLACK OR WHITE? Performance by Michael Mel, April 28, 2007. Rotator photos (numbers one through four): Fiji Project gathering in front of a Masi Kesa from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, Re-presenting Pacific Art. Edited by Karen Stevenson and Virginia-Lee Webb, Australia: Crawford House Publishing, 2010, Dan Taulapapa McMillin, 'O Taulaitu, Acrylic transfer collage and oil paint on canvas, 2012, PAA 11th International Symposium at the University of British Columbia, 2013.